Cricket 1893

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Their victory over the Royal Scots Fusiliers, on Saturday, makes their fourteenth win out of sixteen matches. The other two have been drawn, so that their measure of sncoess has been quite out of the ordinary. In addition to the brothers Papillon and the Old Cantab, Rev. H. C. L. Tindall, almost as good a oricketer as he was a runner, the Saxons have lately secured another useful recruit in C. E . Dunlop, who played for Somersetshire last year. He is now engaged in scholastic work at Ore, near Hastings. It can hardly be said in connection with the South Saxons that the schoolmaster is abroad. On the contrary, he is very muoh there, with Herbert lig g , Dunlop, Rev. H. D. Pooook, who is the principal of the largest and most important sohool in St. Leonards, and, for all I know others, in the profession. How is this for high ? In the matoh between St. John’s School and Christ’s Hospital at Leatherhead last Saturday, the Johnians declared their innings at 149 with six wickets down. This seemed fairly warranted, as it left their opponents with only an hour and a half in whioh to make 150. As it happened, they reokoned without their host, for the Hospital got the runs in fine style at a oost of only seven batsmen. The great feature of the performance was at the close, for the last 27 runs were made up in seven minutes. It was a narrow shave, too, for the winning hit wa3 made off the very last ball of the day, and just on the stroke of time. T he searchers after oricket coincidences might flad useful material in a comparison of the early doings of the Yorkshire eleven in 1892 and ’93. Last year their first reverse, after a long run of viotories, was on June 22, at Leeds, at the hands of Surrey. History has repeated itself strangely this summer in the case of the Yorkshiremen. Their first defeat of the year, after a run of sucoess, was, as in 1892, at Leeds. And curiously enough the match in whioh they were beaten by Lanca • shire last week was begun on the correspond­ ing day to that on whioh Surrey and York­ shire started their fixture last season. I xstances ol a batsman bsing given out for obstructing the field are happily so rare in any kind of cricket that Burns’ dismissal in the matoh between Essex and Dublin University last week is the more noteworthy. Still recent events would seem to show that the legislature will probably have to provide penalties for what is, to my mind, a much more serious offenoe than obstructing the field—I mean the obstruction of the umpire. A palpable oase of terrorism of this kind, for it is nothing else, is fresh in my mind as I write. And what is worse in this particular instance, no appeal to the first offenoes act would apply. Acoording to the Divine W illiam ," That in the captain’ s but a oholerio word, whioh in the soldier is flat blasphemy.” But in cricket the converse has generally and happily prevailed. Indeed, it will be a bad day for the game when rivalry takes so keen a form that those who by virtue of their posi­ tion and influence ought to set an example of respect for the laws, as well as for those who administer them, go out of their way to weaken their authority at every possible opportunity. T he news that George Lohmann has had a relapse is, I am grieved to Bay, unhappily too